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Effect Of Steroids On Patients With Postoperative Bowel Anastomotic Dysfunction, Luis H. Toledo-Pereya, Ignacio Guzman, Earl G. Yonehiro

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Ten patients who developed anastomotic edema following large or small intestinal anastomosis had a rapid recovery after treatment with dexamethasone. The clinical and radiologic picture of adynamic ileus disappeared rapidly. There were no Immediate or long-term (more than two years) complications or side effects associated with the use of dexamethasone. This preliminary report indicates that dexamethasone may be a beneficial agent In the control of anastomotic edema.

Vital Signs, December, 1977, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A six page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Vital Signs, November, 1977, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

An eight page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 04, July - August 1977

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Public Screening for Oral Cancer
• The Anderson Mayfair
• Dr. Becker Elected to Council
• The Pharmacy Department
• Twenty-Second Annual Clinical Conference - Immunotherapy of Human Cancer
• American College of Nutrition

X-Linked Diseases With Cataract, Philip J. Howard

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

X-linked cataracts are a rare group and appear as a complication of other disease. Changes in the lens are difficult to visualize and the family history may alert the examiner to the possibility of cataractous changes. This paper is a review of 13 sex-linked conditions with cataract as a possible complication. Cataracts may be present in an occasional case or in some instances in every case. Short abstracts follow of Fabry's disease, glucose 6-dehydrogenase deficiency, myotonic dystrophy, ectodermal hypohidriotic dysplasia, oculocerebral syndrome, keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans with cataract, Norrie disease, incontinenti pigmenti, hypoparathyroidism due to a sex-linked recessive trait, pseudohypopara-thyroidism, …

Vital Signs, May, 1977, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

An eight page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Vital Signs, April, 1977, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

An eight page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Children With Porencephaly: A Study Of Services, Dana Kaufman, Elisabeth Mason

Dissertations and Theses

This study was conducted to serve as a follow-up of services received and/or needed by families with children who have been identified by Crippled Children's Division of the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center as having porencephaly, usually a severe form of brain damage. Porencephaly refers to cystic cavities or lesions in the brain caused by a prenatal insult to the brain resulting in varying degrees of motor and mental deficits. These children have been seen in general as part of the Cerebral Palsy Clinic. There may be a lack of awareness on part of the parents and the staff …

Women In Menopause: A Study Of Gynecologist's Perceptions, Zadell Cogan, Sharon Kennedy

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore the needs of women experiencing menopause. Since women at this time experience physical, social and emotional changes, they may have a special need for services. Doctors were selected as the population for study because they treat so many women at this age and because they are powerful transmitters of our culture. This exploratory study was designed to provide descriptive information about the doctors' perceptions.

Results are reported from interviews with seventeen gynecologists from the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon. Attempts were made to interview all female gynecologists in the area. Male gynecologists …

Newsletter, Volume 21, Number 06, November - December 1976

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• First Lady at Dedication
• Carcinogenic Effects of Anesthetics Studied
• Cancer: A Comprehensive Treatise Published
• Patients Helped at Cancer Rehabilitation Center
• Research Institute Renamed
• Two Meetings in January

Productivity Of The Roll-Streak Method To Perform Anaerobic Bacteriology In The Routine Clinical Laboratory, Thomas R. Neblett

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Data presented are derived from one year of performing routine clinical anaerobic bacteriology by the roll-streak tube method. 826 specimens from 1508 (54.8%) contained anaerobes. 162 specimens were polymicrobic (19.6%) and contained 528 strains of a total of 1051 isolated (50.2 %). 479 blood specimens contained 525 strains of anaerobes. Propionibacterium, considered a contaminant, occurred 209/210 times in blood as the sole isolate. Bacteroides occurred alone or polymicrobically 308 times and comprised 54.7% of the blood isolates and 32.5% of the total anaerobic genera isolated. Clostridium, Peptococcus and Fusobacterium were the next most frequently occurring anaerobes. The roll-streak method is …

Hallucinogens: A Cause Of Convulsive Ergot Psychoses, Sylvia Dahl Winters

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Ergotism with vasoconstriction and gangrene has been reported through the centuries. Less well publicized are the cases of psychoses associated with convulsive ergotism. Lysergic acid amide a powerful hallucinogen having one.-tenth the hallucinogenic activity of LSD-25 is produced by natural sources. This article attempts to show that convulsive ergot psychoses are mixed psychoses caused by lysergic acid amide or similar hallucinogens combined with nervous system lesions secondary to vasoconstrictive effects of ergotoxine.

Vital Signs, April, 1976, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A four page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Endoscopic Retrograde Pancreatic Duct Cannulation (Erpc): An Aid To Pancreatic Surgery, C. Grodsinsky, B. Schuman, B. E. Brush

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Retrograde endoscopic pancreatic duct cannulation for evaluation of patients with chronic pancreatitis is reviewed over the last two years. Of 40 patients that were endoscoped, 30 had a successful pancreatogram. The X-ray findings fell into three groups: 1) single and multiple stenosis, 2) diffuse narrowing, and 3) apparently normal duct. This procedure proved of value in ruling out or delaying surgical operation in 10 persons. Twenty-one patients underwent operations. Thirteen had a 95% pancreatectomy, one had drainage of a necrotic collection thought to be a pseudocyst and one had a pseudocyst resected. One had a gastrojejunostomy and vagotomy bypassing a …

Vital Signs, March, 1976, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A four page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (March 1976), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The March 1976 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Founders Day/Alumni Dinner Dance
• Reunions
• Alumni Board Meets
• New Appointments
• Board Members Elected
• News from the College
• News from the Hospital and Health Care Centers
• People
• Alumni News Briefs
• Faculty Notes
• In Memoriam

Utilization Of Mental Health Services For Children Relative To Social Class. A Pilot Study, H. K. Von Brauchitsch

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Two groups of children were selected from those evaluated and treated over a two-year period. The study attempted to contrast the mental health care needs and the health care delivery system of children from the uppermost classes against those of the lowest classes. Very few diagnostic discriminators were found. Prevalence of intellectual dysfunctions In the lower classes and neuroses in the upper classes did not correlate with behavior pattern of "acting out" or "acting in." Autistic psychoses were found almost exclusively among the upper classes; suicidality almost exclusively In the lower classes. Upper class children were more frequently referred by …

Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 05, November 1974

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• O.T. Staff Members Devise Prostheses
• Formal Ground Breaking for Interdenominational Chapel
• MDAH Sponsors IX Pigment Cell Conference
• Clinical Abstracts
• Dial Access Systems Provides Information
• Environmental Science Park Publications
• Dr. Clark Receives AMA’s Sheen Award
• Dr. How Fills Position

Surgical Treatment Of Chronic Pancreatitis, Carlos Grodsinsky

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Over a two-year period, 30 patients with chronic pancreatitis have been observed by the author. Thirteen had surgical treatment. Three had laparotomy and drainage only when recurrence of acute inflammation was encountered. One had excision of a cyst of the tail of the pancreas. Another had drainage of a retroperitoneal necrotic collection. A patient with duodenal stenosis from scarring of the head of the pancreas was treated by gastro-jejunostomy. Seven patients had subtotal pancreatectomies. There was no mortality in the latter group, and six are asymptomatic. Information about the duct may be obtained in many cases by endoscopic retrograde cannulation, …

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Fall 1974), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Fall 1974 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• PCOM Inaugurates a President
• Dr. Rowland's Inaugural Address
• Dedication of Overmont House
• Convocation
• Meet the Class of 1978
• Recent Appointments
• News from the College
• News from the Health Care Centers
• People
• Faculty Notes
• In Memoriam

Prenatal Instruction Of Breast Feeding Mothers, Anita Berry

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This experimental study tested the effect of prenatal instruction on the success of a group of mothers who desired to breast feed their infants. It was hypothesized that mothers receiving information on how to nurse their infants, how to prevent complications and how to cope with common problems of breast feeding would have a higher success rate than those not so instructed.

Criteria for success was that the mothers would have an adequate supply of milk to meet the nutritional demands of their infant without supplementation, would have fewer and less severe complications, and would express a higher degree of …

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Summer 1974), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 1974 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• The President: A Profile
• PCOM's First Chancellor
• The 83rd Commencement
• Alumni Weekend
• Alumni Board of Directors
• Reunions
• Commencement Dinner
• Student Awards
• Faculty Promotions
• People
• News from the College; CME Programs
• News from the Hospital and Centers
• Faculty Notes
• The Class of 1974
• Alumni News Briefs
• In Memoriam

The Effects Of Atropine On The Growth And Respiration Of Two Species Of Bacteria Normally Inhabiting The Human Gastro-Intestinal System, Mary M. Ramos

Theses & Dissertations

It is the purpose of this study to determine whether the drug atropine has an effect on bacteria found normally inhabiting the human body, most specifically the gastrointestinal system. Atropine is one of the oldest drugs in medicine. It is derived from the roots and leaves of solanaceous plants such as henbane and Jimson weed. Atropine is often termed a belladonna alkaloid because it can also be found in the deadly nightshade plant, Atropa belladonna. Atropine is a highly competitive antagonist of acetylcholine at receptor sites in smooth muscles, cardiac muscle, and various glandular cells (5). Therefore, its effects are …

Role Of Membrane-Associated Components Of Mycoplasma Arthritidis On The Biosynthesis Of Humoral Antibodies And Arthritogenic Properties In Experimental Animals, Lois M. Bergquist

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The virulence of animal-passaged Mycoplasma arthritidis (158) was demonstrated to be enhanced in rats by growth in oleic acid-enriched broth. The virulence of a laboratory-maintained culture of the same strain was unaffected by similar growth conditions. No differences either in the immune response as measured by complement-fixing (CF) antibodies or in the histogenesis of the disease were detected when rats were injected with animal-passaged M. arthritidis grown either in the presence or in the absence of oleic acid. All tests for metabolism-inhibiting (MI) antibodies in the rat were negative.

A Mycoplasma-associated immunosuppression of the primary and of the secondary hemagglutinin …

A Microtechnique For The Isolation Of Cell Wall Deficient Organisms From Very Small Samples, Lloyd T. Dutcheshen, Philip C. Hessburg

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A miniaturized procedure using a modified microtiter plate is described for the isolation of cell wall deficient organisms. It is particularly useful when the volume of a liquid specimen is very small.

Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 01, February 1973

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Team Treatment for Head and Neck cancer – 17th Clinical Conference
• Clinical Abstracts
• New Staff
• Grant for Cyclotron Trials Awarded
• Rutledge Society Holds Meeting
• Dr. Clark Receives Farber Award
• Clinic Care for Outpatients
• 26th Annual Symposium Announced

Gastrocolic And Duodenocolic Fistulas: An Experimental Study, Joseph L. Ponka, A. Karim Shaalan, P. C. Pesaros

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In an experimental study of gastrocolic and duodenocolic fistulas, it was clearly seen in 10 animals that duodenocolic fistulas result in the most serious loss of nutrition. Death from starvation occurred in all 42 animals in 30 days. Gastrocolic fistulas similarly resulted in weight loss and death of the animals in an average of 42 days. Lengthy fistulas between the stomach and colon caused no obvious disturbances in the physiology of the gastrointestinal tract. The significant microscopic changes included destruction of the mucous membrane and a decrease in size of the villi. The other noteworthy observation was that fistulous aggregations …

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Tube Feeding As Part Of The Supportive Care Of The Surgical Patient, Bernard M. Schuman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A brief review is presented of the purpose and method of tube-feeding malnourished patients by the Barron technique. Dietary factors are analyzed and certain complications that can be avoided by proper attention to technique are noted.